政策能力与科研创新体系:新加坡抗击新冠肺炎疫情的基础与优势

面对新冠肺炎疫情,不同国家和地区的应对策略有极大差异,本文选择新加坡这个城市国家作为研究案例,尝试运用政策能力的概念和视角,通过分析新加坡科研创新体系的发展路径,透视和解析新加坡政府的疫情防控策略是以其较强的科研创新能力为基础和导向来制定执行的。作者希望通过新加坡的案例研究,可以加深理解政策能力的内在逻辑,也可以为政府尤其是大型城市政府在未来应对疫情的策略选择上提供重要参考。

While different nations and states adopted distinctive strategies to respond the Covid-19 pandemic,this article focuses on a city country,Singapore,as a single case to understand its responsive measures.Grounded on the conceptual framework of policy capacity,it first analyzes the policy capacity building process of the Singapore government,especially its leading group,in which the building of analytical and operational capacity is the key.Then it argues that the Singapore government,based on its analysis,heavily invested and intervened the development of Singapore's national innovation system,and the enhanced science,research and innovation competence has served as a strong foundation and support for the Singapore government S response to the Covid-19 pandemic.This case study is expected to deepen the understanding of the logic of the framework of policy capacity,and also provide alternative strategic options for city governments,especially metropolitan governments,to consider in future response to this global crisis.